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For the freedom of her race
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Lisa G. Materson |
"Focusing on Chicago and downstate Illinois politics during the incredibly oppressive decades between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932 - a perio… |
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A picture book of Rosa Parks
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David A. Adler,Charles Turner |
A biography of the Alabama black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped establish the civil rights movement. |
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The war before
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Wonda Jones,Safiya Asya Bukhari,Laura Whitehorn |
>*The War Before* traces Bukhari’s lifelong commitment as an advocate for the rights of the oppressed. Following her journey from middle-class student to Black Panther to political prisoner, these wr… |
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Spies of Mississippi
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Rick Bowers |
The Spies of Mississippi is a compelling story of how state spies tried to block voting rights for African Americans during the Civil Rights era. This book sheds new light on one of the most momentou… |
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"No struggle, no progress"
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Wolfgang Mieder |
"Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) is a giant among civil rights leaders of the United States. With words and deeds he fought against slavery and championed civil rights for all citizens, regardless of … |
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Fight against fear
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Clive Webb |
"In the uneasily shared history of Jews and blacks in America, the struggle for civil rights in the South may be the least understood episode. Fight against Fear is the first book to focus on Jews an… |
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My Uncle Martin's words for America
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Angela Farris Watkins |
Angela Farris Watkins, the niece of Martin Luther King Jr., recounts her uncle's work to promote racial equality and introduces key events during the civil rights era. |
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Black Against Empire
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Waldo E. Martin,Joshua Bloom,Ron Butler |
This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political … |
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Coretta Scott King
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Dale Evva Gelfand |
"Biography of the wife of assassinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr."--From source other than the Library of Congress |
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Goat Castle
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Karen L. Cox |
In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. Two eccentrics… |
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Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington
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Stephanie Watson |
This title will inform readers about Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington, the organizers, the march's purpose, and King s famous speech, I Have a Dream. Vivid details, well-chosen pho… |
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North of Dixie
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Mark Speltz |
"Broadens view of the civil rights movement as taking place only in the South during the 1960s with over 100 photographs from the North, Midwest, and West taken between 1938 and 1970, and with histor… |
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Julius Chambers
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Richard A. Rosen |
"Born in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers (1936-2013) escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge in the 1960s and 1970s as the nation's leading African American ci… |
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Selma's Bloody Sunday
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Pratt, Robert A. |
"One can point to more than a few 'critical moments' in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Even so, few incidents so starkly etched the just-treatment claims of the struggle and the raw brutalit… |
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Advancing the civil rights movement
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Michael DiBari |
Life Magazine covered the civil rights movement visually and geographically. Michael Dibari addresses Life's visual impact and representation in the struggle for equal rights. |
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Racial Reckoning
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Renee C. Romano |
268 pages : 24 cm |
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The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World
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Lindsey R. Swindall |
The Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Council on African Affairs were two organizations created as part of the early civil rights efforts to address race and labor issues during the Great Depress… |
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Race Against Time
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Jack E. Davis |
"While many studies of race relations have focused on the black experience, Race against Time strives to unravel the emotional and cultural foundations of race in the white mind. Jack E. Davis combed… |
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Called to be free
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
Commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights movement through first-hand reports and photographs depicting the climactic moments from the politicians, activists, and citizens who demande… |
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Risking everything
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Michael Edmonds |
"Risking Everything : A Freedom Summer Reader documents the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, when SNCC and CORE workers and volunteers arrived in the Deep South to register voters and teach n… |
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